Dr. Richard Shultz

richard.shultz@tufts.edu

Dr. Shultz is an advisor to the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies and director of the International Security Studies Program and Professor of international politics. He frequently lectures at U.S. military academies and war colleges and is a consultant to various government agencies concerned with security affairs. He is a 1999 Recipient of a Goldsmith Research Award, of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University.

He has also been the beneficiary of three chairs including the Olin Distinguished Professorship of National Security Studies at the U.S. Military Academy, Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brigadier General H.L. Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy, U.S. Marine Corps. Furthermore, Dr. Shultz has received research fellowships at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Professor Shultz's research interests include: U.S. national security policy; regional conflict and state disintegration; ethnic and religious conflict; armed groups; contemporary military strategy; intelligence policy, terrorism, and covert paramilitary operations; internal war and power projection; media-military relations; changing roles and missions of the U.S. armed forces.